70. Honey Badgers

 

We have a TV. The stations all in English. We can't get enough. Brody is in charge of the remote tonight, so I walked in on a Honey Badger documentary. I've concluded that Honey Badgers are the most hysterical creatures I've ever observed. All they do is escape from any cage they are placed in, and break things. The entire documentary is about how clever they are. Half the time, the crew is just trying to keep their equipment from being destroyed.

We started the day with the changing of the guards where moms OCD kept her from enjoying anything. Reserving our spot at the front of the gate was a methodical event. If anyone screwed it up, the day was ruined. It started with us making a body barrier by making sure our feet were spread and touching the famiily member next to us. This gave us a little more space when people started pushing. Everyone had an assigned spot, and no moving was allowed. After an hour we heard a little from the band, watched the guys in funny hats march around, and felt the tension from everyone around us who wanted to get closer to see absolutely nothing. In all, the changing of the guard, I concluded is something that is nice to glance at as you walk by, but nothing special enough to stand and watch. Lesson learned.

 

Our apartment this week is basically in the middle of everything, we aren't worried about how to get anywhere, because everything is in walking distance! Seeing as we are super close to Buckingham, Big Ben, and the London eye, we didn't expect this part of town to be in our backyard. But I've grown to like this place! The art is pretty creative, the train lulls us to sleep, and the apartment was stocked with little soaps we will steal.

The afternoon was spent at the British Museum where we go t to see all of the stuff they stole from Egypt. Poor Egypt. We got about halfway through before being kicked out at closing time.

This gave us enough time to check out the old Egyptian statues, the one above is Ramesses II which we all recognized from the Prince of Egypt movie we loved as kids. We also saw some old mummies that were stolen from their graves and homeland for science. I might feel more emotional about this disgrace if I didnt find them so cool and interesting... We have plans to go back so we can see everything Great Britain stole from ancient Greece. Should make for a good time.